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Unit 8: Anti-Trans and Anti-Queer Violence
How is anti-trans and anti-queer violence linked to gender-based violence and racial violence? What role does anti-queer and anti-trans violence play in the creation and maintenance of the settler state?
How do trans of color lives and deaths come to stand in not for their particular moments, but a more generalized notion of social violence? In that way, do their narratives service larger, homogenizing and thus obviating forces in neoliberalism, gentrification, and LGBTQI community activism?
Readings:
- Sarah Lamble, “Retelling Racialized Violence, Remaking White Innocence: The Politics of Interlocking Oppressions in Transgender Day of Remembrance.” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 5.1: 24–42.
- C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn, “Trans Necropolitics- A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and Trans of Color Afterlife.”
- Film: Out in the Night (dir. Blair Dorosh-Walther, 2014)
- Strochlic, Nina. “‘Out in the Night’ and the Redemption of the ‘Killer Lesbian Gang’.” The Daily Beast, June 21, 2014.
- Hardy, Ernest. “NJ 4 Doc Out in the Night Is Infuriating and Depressing in Equal Measure.” Village Voice, June 18, 2014
For additional reading, see:
- Film: Major!
- Law Enforcement Violence against Women of Color & Trans People of Color. An Organizer’s Resource & Tool Kit. By Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. Boston: Beacon Press. 2011.
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition. Eds. Eric A. Stanley; Nat Smith. AK Press, 2015.
